LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
Noxtua’s €100 Million Power Play: As a major legal publisher takes control of European legal AI company Noxtua, the battle for legal AI supremacy is shifting from clever algorithms to something that’s more valuable, being the ownership of authoritative legal content. The legal AI funding frenzy has another €100 million to celebrate as a legal
New Zealand taxpayers are being ripped off to the tune of $360 million a year because of bid-rigging in public procurement, the Commerce Commission estimates. Chair Dr John Small says the estimated harm illustrates the importance of the Commission’s ongoing enforcement and educational efforts. “I have a message for those involved in this illegal activity
The London law firm behind Britain’s biggest group litigation is preparing to rebrand after co-founder Harris Pogust demanded the removal of his name. But the fight over its identity is only one part of an increasingly bitter struggle for control of the Mariana dam disaster litigation. A law firm losing its founding partners is hardly
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Buchalter is pleased to announce that Bill Smelko has joined the firm as Partner in its San Diego office as a member of the Insolvency and Financial Law Practice Group. “San Diego continues to be an incredibly important market for Buchalter and a key part of our long-term growth strategy,” said Adam Bass, President and
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SANTA ANA, California – The CEO of a wearable technology company has been found guilty by a jury of running a near-$2 million Ponzi scheme by duping investors through lies that she owned “smart rings” patents that rightfully belonged to her former employer, and of fraudulently obtaining $150,000 in COVID-19 pandemic business-relief loans, the Justice Department
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New Zealand has a new legal technology venture, but this one is not promising to shave another 20 minutes off a lawyer’s drafting time. Tika, the sexual harm reporting and legal support service co-founded by former journalist Alison Mau and lawyer Zoë Lawton, (pictured) has launched publicly in New Zealand, introducing a model that combines
>> new role; new organisation – General Counsel & Company Secretary Doyle’s Guide builds its rankings from peer and client nominations rather than firm submissions, and insists they can’t be bought. Ranked practitioners can, of course, pay to dress up their profiles afterwards. Strip away the chambers newsletters and LinkedIn victory laps, and the 2026
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As the owner of Kathmandu and Rip Curl battles a major $414 million loss, its legal fees have surged more than 1,400 per cent with Chapman Tripp pocketing the massive law fees’ surge as KMD Brands bleed money.
Two directors have connections to its longstanding legal adviser, raising questions about corporate governance and the management of potential conflicts.
Chapman Tripp received NZ$1.192 million in legal fees from the troubled retailer during the financial year ended July 2026, compared with just $79,000 the previous year, according to financial records from KMD and reported in the Australian Financial Review.
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Quinn Emanuel tops BTI’s most feared litigation list for the fifth straight year. The top sixteen firms haven’t budged. The only real movement is further down, where some “Awesome” firms are quietly being reclassified as merely “Intimidating.” A particular kind of silence falls over a general counsel’s office when the other side’s notice of appearance
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A former finance manager who was involved in a large scale multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme targeting the Japanese community has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison, and ordered to pay $691,000 in reparations, after being found guilty on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office. A minimum period of imprisonment of 40%
